Current Projects

We fund and support several Major Projects, and Research Development Projects every year.

This year's Major projects are noted below. For details of Research Development projects this year, please click here.

Arts Engagement and Mental Health at Work

Exploring how arts engagement can help to combat loneliness at work, and increasing working adults’ mental health and well-being.

Surfacing Knowledge from Doctoral Research: mining the hidden potential of international doctoral theses

Exploring the knowledge and impact of the research produced by PhD studies in UK universities.

Interest in Cattle: value, risk and security in eastern and southern Africa

Examining how cattle are linked to changing understandings of future security, value and risk

Cattle being herded in the Masi Mara - istock

Confronting Climate Apartheid: law, economy, culture

Seeking to understand how climate apartheid is, has been, and could be used by focusing on the contexts in which it appears.

2024 - 26 Project - Tübingen College of Fellows - Durham IAS collaboration

The aim of the project is to allow the IAS and the College of Fellows to extend current work in this area at each university into a wider understanding of ‘Belonging’.